# mein
## Anus
### Noun

mein
* bird

### References

* George W. Grace, Notes on the phonological history of the Austronesian languages of the Sarmi Coast, in Oceanic Linguistics (1971, 10:11-37)

## German
### Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn. Compare English my and mine.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maɪ̯n/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪ̯n
* Homophone: meinen (according to a common pronunciation of this form)

### Determiner

mein
* (possessive) my

#### Declension

When used as a possessive pronoun, the nominative masculine takes the form meiner, which equals English "mine", and the nominative/accusative neuter takes the form meines or meins.
* dein Vater und meiner – your father and mine
* dein Kind und mein(e)s – your child and mine
When the pronoun is placed after a noun, it is left uninflected:
* Gen Himmel zu dem Vater mein fahr ich von diesem Leben (song Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g'mein) – Towards Heaven to my father go I from this life.

### Pronoun

mein
* (archaic) genitive of ich

### Further reading

* “mein” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
* “mein” in Duden online

### Anagrams

* Mine

## Gothic
### Romanization

mein
* Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌹𐌽

## Hunsrik
### Etymology

From Old High German mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz. Cognate with German mein.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maɪ̯n/

### Determiner

mein
* my

#### Inflection

| | nominative / accusative | nominative / accusative | nominative / accusative | nominative / accusative | dative | dative | dative | dative |
| | masculine | feminine | neuter | plural | masculine | feminine | neuter | plural |
| 1st person singular | mein | mein | mein | mein, meine$^1$ | meim | meiner | meim | meine |
| 2nd person singular | dein | dein | dein | dein, deine$^1$ | deim | deiner | deim | deine |
| 3rd person singular (m/n) | sein | sein | sein | sein, seine$^1$ | seim | seiner | seim | seine |
| 3rd person singular (f) | eere | eere | eere | eere | eerem | eerer | eerem | eere |
| 1st person plural | unser | unser | unser | unser, unsre$^1$ | unsrem | unsrer | unsrem | unsre |
| 2nd person plural | eier | eier | eier | eier, eire$^1$ | eirem | eirer | eirem | eire |
| 3rd person plural | eere | eere | eere | eere | eerem | eerer | eerem | eere |
$^1$Form used when the plural of the noun is the same as the singular

### Further reading

* Online Hunsrik Dictionary

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse mein, from Proto-Germanic *mainą.

### Noun

mein n (genitive singular meins, nominative plural mein)
* disease, illness
    Synonym: sjúkdómur m
* harm, damage
    Synonym: skaði m

#### Derived terms

* gera einhverjum mein (“to harm someone”)
* kenna sé einskis meins
* krabbamein
* meinabót
* meinabrot
* meinafræði
* meinafullur
* meinagemsi
* meinakind
* meinakoma
* meinalaus
* meinamál
* meinasauður
* meinatækni
* meinatæknir

### Anagrams

* nemi

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English mīn.

#### Determiner

mein (subjective pronoun I)
* Alternative form of min

#### Pronoun

mein (subjective I)
* Alternative form of min

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

mein
* Alternative form of mayn

## Nalca
### Noun

mein
* mountain

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

mein n (definite singular meinet, indefinite plural mein, definite plural meina or meinene)
* alternative form of men

### Verb

mein
* imperative of meine

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɛɪːn/

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse mein, from Proto-Germanic *mainą.

#### Noun

mein n (definite singular meinet, indefinite plural mein, definite plural meina)
* harm
* obstacle

##### Derived terms

* til meins
* meinføre

##### Related terms

* meine

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse meinn, from Proto-Germanic *mainaz.

#### Adjective

mein (neuter meint, definite singular and plural meine, comparative meinare, indefinite superlative meinast, definite superlative meinaste)
* cumbersome, mean
* precise, keen
    Synonym: visshøv

##### Related terms

* mein-

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

mein
* imperative of meine

### References

* “mein” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
* “mein”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
* “mein” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

### Anagrams

* mein-, meni

## Old French
### Noun

mein oblique singular, f (oblique plural meinz, nominative singular mein, nominative plural meinz)
* Alternative form of main

## Old Norse
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *mainą.

#### Noun

mein n
* harm, mischief, crime, misdeed

##### Descendants

* Icelandic: mein
* Faroese: mein
* Norwegian Nynorsk: mein
** → Norwegian Bokmål: mein
* Old Swedish: mēn
** Swedish: men
* Danish: men
** Norwegian Bokmål: men

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

mein
* strong feminine nominative singular of meinn
* strong neuter nominative/accusative plural of meinn

### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “mein”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive